A Wizard's Guide To Defensive Baking
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4.5 • 133 Ratings
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Publisher Description
Fourteen-year-old Mona isn't like the wizards charged with defending the city. She can't control lightning or speak to water. Her familiar is a sourdough starter and her magic only works on bread. She has a comfortable life in her aunt's bakery making gingerbread men dance.
But Mona's life is turned upside down when she finds a dead body on the bakery floor. An assassin is stalking the streets of Mona's city, preying on magic folk, and it appears that Mona is his next target. And in an embattled city suddenly bereft of wizards, the assassin may be the least of Mona's worries...
Customer Reviews
Baking is often magic
Yeast is a living thing, and dough is magic—ask anyone who’s learnt to bake bread.
I love Bob. I love the gingerbread man who becomes more than just a trick.
I love Mona for who she is and who she becomes—and who she does not.
More from this world, please! Too much whimsey to enjoy here to spend it all on one novel.
You should read this
Death by sourdough starter! Misbehaving gingerbread men! Murder and sass! What more could you need.
Delightful
I think the only word for this book is “delightful.” In a standard-issue medievaloid fantasy setting, a teenage apprentice baker and wizard finds herself thrust into the unexpected role of saving the city-state from plots and foreign invasion. With the help of an animated gingerbread man and a magical familiar in the form of a sourdough culture named Bob. I mean, what more do you need to know? The protagonist is believably complex and flawed and the baking-based magic (indeed, the general premise of how magic works in the world) is well-realized and woven into the plot and its resolution. I may be biased in my love of this book because the quarantine initiated me into the Sourdough Tribe. But then again, I think it’s just that good.